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Headlines for 25 November 2003

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 Jury hands sniper Muhammad death sentence.

 U.S. military retracts report of American soldier mutilation in Iraq.

 At debate, Democratic candidates attack Dean on Medicare.

 Cell-phone users show up en masse, ready to switch.

 Macy’s to show vintage balloons – including Happy the Hippo and the first balloonhead family – at this year’s Thanksgiving Parade on Thursday.

 Ku Klux Klan member shoots gun in air, God shoots back.

 It changed my life and made me think that I could become a singer too. The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess on New Order’s Power, Corruption & Lies.

 The psychology of shopping in New York.

 Unconvinced historians want to open the alleged tomb of Harold II, Britain’s last Anglo-Saxon monarch.

 Shel Silverstein, in the ‘sexy pirate with dirty feet’ shot from the back cover of Where the Sidewalk Ends. ‘People I’d have sex with to avoid ‘dialing down the middle’ with Carrot Top, as revealed by a recent game of ‘Who Would You Rather Sleep With?’’ by Evany Thomas.

 British farmers release chill-out album for turkeys getting nervous during the holidays. Related: How to pick out a good turkey.

 Did you know that 34,273 is the smallest prime number whose square is zeroless pandigital (i.e., containing all digits from 1 to 9)? And more fun with prime numbers!

 Ken Womack on The Beatles’ Let It Be…Naked.

 Man’s iPod battery dies, man gets angry, man makes PSA. Related: Apple introduces battery plan for iPods.

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